Voter ID Law Passed, Scott Walker Moves to Close DMVs in Dem Districts

Evil corporate lackey Scott Walker recently got a memo on his desk from the fringe conservative Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council, an organization that drafts bills for GOP lawmakers who are too stupid or too lazy to pen the enormous quantities of the Kochs’ slobbering hate for the poor into formal legislative proposals. The memo that Walker got sent him some instructions like, “there are too many minority people and students voting in your state,” along with the text of a voter ID bill pooped out by the typing monkeys from the Koch offices. Thus a Walker “legislative priority” was conceived and excreted onto the people of Wisconsin. Hooray! Now, no one can vote without a state-issued ID. Can Scott Walker go it one further? He wants to pass another law ordering the Department of Transportation to shut down up to 16 DMV offices that a Democratic lawmaker says are located in blue districts, while it would extend hours at offices in GOP areas.

Gov. Scott Walker’s administration is working on finalizing a plan to close as many as 16 offices where people can obtain driver’s licenses, in order to expand hours elsewhere and come into compliance with new requirements that voters show photo IDs at the polls.

One Democratic lawmaker said Friday it appeared the decisions were based on politics, with the department targeting offices for closure in Democratic areas and expanding hours for those in Republican districts.

A high-ranking state Department of Transportation official rejected that claim, saying the changes were based on economics, not politics.

Rep. Andy Jorgensen, D-Fort Atkinson, called on the DOT to reconsider its plants to close the Fort Atkinson DMV center. The department plans to expand by four hours a week the hours of a center about 30 minutes away in Watertown.

It is. Only not to the stupid person. Everybody else feels immense discomfort.

Serolf_Divad

Evil, I'm afraid is not the same as stupid.

http://www.storycorner.us/ JustPixelz

Ouch! You hurt me with your word things.

jodyleek

Apparently, it is painful for Michele Bachmann. Tee hee.

http://thethingsrepublicanshate.com/ Chillwaver

GOP voters, you mean? Speaking of stupidity, I just now noticed: when did they get rid of downfist buttons???

Barb

The downfist button went away yesterday.

jus_wonderin

Cool! I didn't notice that. Maybe troll will have to actually comment/debate now. That would be fun.

Callyson

I wouldn't count on that: have you seen the idiot trolls who comment on HuffPo? But I'll settle for them going away in a sulk…

Doktor Zoom

Even better, Spanky2b was kicked off IntenseDebate for TOS violations. If he comes back with a new account, he's going to have to behave himself.

AJWjr.

I dunno, he was still alive and posting 21 hours ago as his dumb old self.
Even more fun, you can go there and downfist away to your heart's content without any reprisals…

Callyson

They got rid of those? Thank you, Wonkette!

http://ifthethunderdontgetya.blogspot.com/ ifthethunderdontgetya

Your move, Rick Scott.

You don't want to be out-evil henchmaned, do you?
~

freakishlywrong

He's already being sued for his awful "disenfranchise everyone but whitey" law.

PsycWench

"Your move, Rick Scott Voldemort."

http://zvibleindmeis.tumblr.com/ SpurningBeer

Governor Scott will be introducing bills in the next legislative term that would require voters to present a Glamor Shot and two signed and notarized statements that the person is white before registering to vote.

PuckStopsHere

It's still better than the original plan which was to tattoo drivers license #'s onto the arms of Democrats.

FNMA

Brwando has what plant's crave.

FraAnima

Yellow Donkeys are still to be sewn to their clothes tho.

Callyson

Which, oddly enough, would all be given the same number by Scotty, to deflect attention away from his true master:
666STN

http://Wonkette.com MLHencken

Scott Walker: "I am not doing that thing which you just caught me doing."

A high-ranking state Department of Transportation official rejected that claim, saying the changes were based on economics, not politics.

"Fuck off, libunatics!", the official added.
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Ruhe

"It's not politics, it's economics. Is it our problem that the blacks and hispanics are poor and live in poor districts where the DMV service can't turn a profit? Not it is not, so fuck off."

http://intensedebate.com/people/mrblifil mrblifil

ERRATUM: an earlier report stated "A high-ranking state Department of Transportation official rejected that claim, saying the changes were based on economics, not politics.

If should have read: "A high-ranking state Department of Transportation official rejected that claim, saying the changes were based on economics, not politics, punctuating the statement with wild hip gesticulations and two-handed miming intended to suggest the masturbation of a whale penis."

Biel_ze_Bubba

What eco-fucking-nomics??? They're closing what, the least profitable DMV offices?
I bet there are some unprofitable welfare and unemployment offices they can cherry-pick, too.
When does that recall election get underway … this giant walking prick needs to be tossed out on his fat teabagger ass, ASAP.

Lascauxcaveman

If it's a matter of economics, I can help them, I've got a great idea. Put an expresso/soft serve ice cream bar in the entrance of every unprofitable DMV. Who doesn't love a tasty soft-serve cone while they're waiting in line at the DMV? Nobody, that's who.

Pay for itself in 4 months. After that, it all gravy.

NorthStarSpanx

The Black Panthers are really going to stand out against those Republican DMV strong-holds.

Come here a minute

Hey Wonkett, seems voter fraud is funny to you. #kneejerkconservative

Arken

Hey, I laugh every time Mugabe is 're-elected.'

Serolf_Divad

No such thing as voter fraud if no one gets to vote in the first place.

gvvt

Voter fraud is indeed a TERRIBLE problem in Wisconsin. You can see the havoc it has caused in the makeup of the current state government.

horsedreamer_1

Kathy Nickolaus has ballot-bags at the ready almost as ugly as the bags under her eyes.

Pragmatist2

The next phase is to have all DMV offices located at country clubs` in the Members Only area.

horsedreamer_1

& Iranian voter-fraud will go thru the roof. Like their fission attempts.

Seriously tho, it's time for torches and pitchforks, people (and cheese curds and beer)

http://Wonkette.com MLHencken

Apropos of nothing, I wonder why is it that Democrats are never so at ease with this sort of thing?

GOP operatives do seem to go on with this sort of gerrymandering so effortlessly. But when ACORN just tries to (by and large) register actual eligible voters, we get Shelly Crazy-Eyez yelling at Barney Frank:

"IT'S A CONSPIRACY! DEFUND ACORN! AMEROS! MIGRAINES!"

http://intensedebate.com/people/mrblifil mrblifil

The phenomenon you describe is largely dependent upon which narratives receive broad distribution in the cultural atmosphere wherein our politics reside. Which means such decisions are left to the goat-fucking teenage murder victim defilers running our world. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to clear that up.

horsedreamer_1

Which reminds me: I was watching Question Time on CSPAN on Sunday — obviously, re-run — & I felt terribly sorry for Nick Clegg, sitting glumly behind Cameron on the PM's right-side, knowing the fool's bargain he was alleged to have made to install the LDP in the governing coalition was proving correct (if as well for reasons independent of those cited, at the time).

How much longer before he torpedos the whole thing, leaves the coalition, & triggers a no confidence vote?

http://intensedebate.com/people/mrblifil mrblifil

How much longer? Long enough to secure himself some cushion when the shit comes down. And not a minute longer… When your best friend hacked a dead girl's cell phone, which the police did nothing about (other than considering her dad a prime suspect for a while), you start to look for new friends.

horsedreamer_1

Sadly, I don't see the LDP polling well in a do-over election — too much heat for enabling the Conservatives, who, even having only to beat the milquetoast Gordon Brown, still could not win an outright majority — so Clegg's cushion will have to be in the private sector. & being he's from a third party, with Europhilic tendencies, I don't know what private concern in the UK would have him.

But at least we might get Home Secretary or Chancellor of the Exchecquer Balls out of the deal, once Labour comes roaring back.

http://Wonkette.com MLHencken

Oh, you're quite welcome sir.

Biel_ze_Bubba

It's too bad there's no way to test for the presence of a functioning conscience, as a prerequisite for electoral office.

Although, if we could, the 'baggers and Kochsuckers would probably concoct some reason it was a violation of their Constitutional rights. "Amoral assholes are entitled to representation," and/or something about freedom of religion (since being an asshole is an unavoidable consequence of their religious beliefs.)

Beowoof

I am in awe of the douche baggery of this move. Has anyone in the American electorate noticed what these guys are up to. Nah.

Sue4466

Or they've noticed and rationalized it as necessary to stop the "rampant voter fraud ™" that goes on in the talking points of the GOP.

http://intensedebate.com/people/mrblifil mrblifil

Well, yuh! That's why they are attacking the elections system. People have noticed, and they'll really notice when they show up to vote and are turned away by cops.

Beowoof

That's my biggest fear, no one will notice till they show up to vote and been told they cant vote.

http://www.wonkette.com/ slowhansolo

Naked transparency is the best cover when you're engaged in something completely unbelievable.

Allmighty_Manos

How about they make WI voters take a test on their knowledge of the state constitution? Yeah I know that is illegal, but it would give Scalia and Thomas a great opportunity to strike down the Voting Rights Act since the GOP is so eager to repeal the 20th century.

Ruhe

"Repeal the 20th Century" is perhaps the most insightful phrase I've ever seen on Wonkette. Well said. Can I get a T-shirt?

elviouslyqueer

But if Scalia and Thomas vote to repeat the 20th century, wouldn't that revert darling Clarence to the status of obligatory house negro? Oh, wait.

pdiddycornchips

Between this doofus in WI and Bachmann in Minn. I wonder about voter fraud myself. The people of these two great states are generally agreeable and not insane. At least the ones I'm familiar with. I think they are busing in wingnuts from trailer parks down south. Since the real WI/Minn. folks are so non-confrontational, they simply let them vote and offer them freshly baked pie.

Sue4466

The Wonkette headline isn't even joking. They're that fucking transparent. These defenders of freedom and liberty.

http://www.wonkette.com ManchuCandidate

Freedumz and liberty is for Kochsuckers only.

BarryOPotter

I'm not a lawyerin' guy, but how the hell are these actions not crossing the line into the land of voter suppression and civil rights violations?

Biel_ze_Bubba

You can't cross a line when it's miles behind you.

BarryOPotter

Good point…

GOPCrusher

You would think the Holder DOJ would be looking into something like this, wouldn't ya?

Sue4466

"A high-ranking state Department of Transportation official rejected that claim, saying the changes were based on economics, not politics."

He says that as if economics and politics aren't the same thing. It's the economics of who donates most to Republicans.

BarryOPotter

He says that as if economics and politics aren't the same thing.

True. In Econ, I learned that economics is politics, and in PoliSci, I learned that politics is economics, ergo, Wisconsin's state leaders are jerks, liars, fellators and really bad eggs…

Doktor Zoom

Apparently the Walker Administration appoints top departmental officials based on their ability to keep a straight face while saying things like that.

http://wonkette.com/ weejee

All you Wisconsin libtards who will be heading out to walk yer dogs, send your poo bags to Governor Dan Walker, 115 East Capitol, Madison, WI 53702

MissusBarry

I have some dog poo I'd be happy to provide for non-dog owners.

gvvt

He needs material for more legislation.

YasserArraFeck

Oh great – the start of the rise of the "Poo Party", known colloquially as the "Poo Baggers". Remember: "All Politics is Fecal"

His ghost lives in Scott. Had to deal with that Dan for years when living in Illinois, hence the subconscious typo.

not that Dewey

We saw him eating hot dogs at ChicagoFest one year. I was young, but my dad recognized him, knew of his corruption, and ironically asked him for an autograph. We still have it, somewhere.

I see it as less of a typo, and more a "ghost of xmas future" kind of thing.

fuflans

do you know if the good people of WI are sick of this douchebag yet?

i could type something in the googles but i much prefer concise wonketteer responses…

http://hong-kong-actresses.blogspot.com/ donner_froh

"…too stupid or lazy" covers 100% of the GOP elected officials in state legislatures or elsewhere.

Actually if covers most to the democrats as well.

http://www.wonkette.com ManchuCandidate

It's not even evil kind of evil, but a petty chickenshit kind of evil you get from simple minds. Oh you silly Cheezheads. Anywhere else, Koch Walker Cocksucker would have just put the browns/blacks and liebruls in camps.

http://intensedebate.com/people/mrblifil mrblifil

It's actually quite brilliant, evaluated on it's own terms. They pretty well know they will not be able to rescue Walker from recall, especially if they push the state's teachers to shut down schools for the fall. I'm sure they have a barrage of parting FUs planned. I think they're still trying to exact revenge for the humiliation Kevin Bacon's character endured in Animal House.

http://www.wonkette.com ManchuCandidate

Yeah, but bureaucratic inertia being what it is… that takes time. Time that Koch Sucker doesn't have.

horsedreamer_1

Or, for that matter, Charles Koch doesn't have. For all the money he has, that cancer isn't going to get cured. Remission, maybe; maybe he'll be to cancer what Earvin Johnson is to HIV. But, in the end, it will break him.

BaldarTFlagass

*Breaks into Will Ferrell/Cheri Oteri routine*

Go Cancer!! Go Cancer!!!

Biel_ze_Bubba

The word you're looking for is "banality".

FraAnima

Next: Poll taxes to be reinstated.

MissusBarry

Eh, really, they were…ID's aren't free.

PsycWench

Next, literacy tests that are based on Fox News reports. Not the Bible, because black people can beat them at actual Bible.

DahBoner

How many beans in that jar, boy?

BlueMonkeh

Considering how much many local governments (state, county, etc.) are raising the fees paid to get a state ID, it's already happened in spades.

V572 Hair of Destiny

"A high-ranking state Department of Transportation official…" Ha ha, a high-ranking DMV guy so important she has to speak on background. Way to go after that story, AP! You can tell us: was it Patty or Selma?

BaldarTFlagass

Man, the shits just keep on comin'.

http://wonkette.com/ weejee

"Zactly. To reverse the course of this river see the poop bag proposal, above.

Dudleydidwrong

It's a great world. Just when I think they've tried every douchbag trick imaginable they outdo themselves and descend into deeper and deeper baggery. Industrial roach spray in 55 gallon drums will be necessary, applied along with pitchforks and torches.

http://www.storycorner.us/ JustPixelz

I haven't looked at the details in other states, but here in Joe-mentum Connecticut, it costs like $150 to get a driver's license. Plus about $1,000,000 in lost wages in line at the DMV. Money I could have used to create jobs. Anyway am I the only one who sees a de facto poll tax in these laws? Oh, I forget the Supreme Court says its OK to charge people to vote by calling it a "voter ID" requirement.

Ruhe

There is a fee for obtaining a driver's license. A driver's license is required for voting. Ergo the DMV fee is a defacto poll tax.
That, sir, is logical, rational thinking and as any man will admit Kochs and rationality do not mix well.

mookwrthwilson

Actually…and I hate Voter ID laws BTW (its a solution looking for a problem) but the WI DMV will issue free ID cards for voting purposes…:

Free Wisconsin ID cards for voting
A free ID card is available under Wisconsin law to anyone who:

will be at least 18 years of age on the date of the next election and;
requests an ID card for the purpose of voting.

Biel_ze_Bubba

Just go to your nearest not-yet-shuttered DMV office… the one in the white Republican district, on the other side of the freeway.

mookwrthwilson

Yep…I know…it's still bullshit…even with the free cards…

horsedreamer_1

Let's see if the Pewaukee Police allow them to get that far.

horsedreamer_1

This would still seem to be (much) less than compliant with Motor Voter — from which Wisconsin was exempted, in the mid-nineties, due to the allowance for same-day-as-election, polling-station registration; & it saved us money, too, since funds did not need to be allocated to DMV for voter registration (& considering we are in such a deficit hole, thus necessitating the end of collective bargaining, why…) — so I see a federal suit being a strong possibility.

http://intensedebate.com/people/mrblifil mrblifil

Personally I think they are setting the stage to have all state election results thrown out, beginning with the first recall elections that actually start removing Republicans from office.

http://facethesuncastnoshadow.wordpress.com/ Mumbletypeg

From the AP:

… state budget requires that DMV driver license and ID card services be offered in all 72 counties at least 20 hours a week. Currently, only 30 counties have offices that meet that 20-hour requirement.

Thus a [non?]-Walker “legislative priority” was conceived and excreted Koch-blocked? Fitz-aborted? suffocated in the nearest bathtub? Must be the latter in the name of government "transparency": motives stand out in stark relief but instead of accountability their fruits are weighed for drownability.

Biel_ze_Bubba

"Currently, only 30 [of 72] counties have offices that meet that 20-hour requirement."

Anyone care to hazard a guess about the extent of coverage in GOP/conservatard districts?

freakishlywrong

Shit. Between this and the Diebold riggings, Dubya will win again!

comrad_darkness

With the debt ceiling debacle, I wake up in the morning and swear he did.

freakishlywrong

Excellent point. Too bad all this shit he caused doesn't keep HIM up at night.

horsedreamer_1

All the souffle is very somnabulizing.

gvvt

as a machine write-in

Biel_ze_Bubba

I'm pretty sure they'll get around to reprogramming the machines.

Sue4466

I know we're all freaked by the impending debt ceiling fueled economic meltdown that will destroy the country, but this kind of scheming seems like a larger threat to democracy.

horsedreamer_1

The pit of my stomach is turning over, & over, & over. I have to think: I survived a dissected aneurysm on my ascending aortic root, for this, this teabagging nonsense?

Don't worry: I'm not going to abide the spirit of my favourite Armenian, Dr. Jack, but — it's disheartening. Seriously. I cannot get over how little value for a (good) life some people have. & all because The Other might get good, too.

comrad_darkness

Word. In any form of government, the threat of being voted out of office is the thin thread that holds the rest of the shit pile in some semblance of non-abusive functionality.

tihond

The appropriate Democrat response to this would be to require an opening to small for SUVs to fit through at each polling place parking lot when they're back in power.

Biel_ze_Bubba

Screw the parking. Make it necessary to walk. Disabled Dems should be happy to vote by mail, knowing the net benefit.

That's the point. That's what they live for. For some reason the modern conservative troglodyte loves nothing more than the possibility that somehow somewhere a liberal is punching a wall. If there were a way to artificially produce the endorphin rush, we would have a repeat of the crack epidemic of the eighties, except this time it would be restricted to the doughy white boy community and the women who are forced to fuck them.

MissusBarry

Well, they should be exploding from the endorphin rush of my anger alone.

horsedreamer_1

I thought the GOP had those, already; or did people stop doing poppers, at the Log Cabin?

DashboardBuddha

One thing though…Our governor here in Maine is cut from the same cloth as Walker. Watching these shenanigans has make my hyper-alert to the same thing here. Just try it, Lepage…just fucking try it.

horsedreamer_1

La Page, no? Has anyone accused him of being a Quebecois anchor-baby, to allow for the military wing of the separatists to plot against Canada on U.S. soil?

Où est le certificat de naissance, Paul?

Dudleydidwrong

Knowing Mainers as I do I'd like to believe that if Paul LePew tried something like that he'd be boiled in a lobster pot. But I fear that such shit will be tried in Maine, Minnesota, Arizona, and the states of the old Confederacy and this generation will just be thankful that the NFL season hasn't been canceled. Bread and circuses.

Given the recall efforts going on against state representatives in Wisconsin, why aren't they recalling Walker?

freakishlywrong

In due time..in January actually. (they have to serve a year). He should have all the Dems disenfranchised by then.

MissusBarry

Because they're silly and obeying the law that says they can't recall him until he's been in office for a year. They have the signatures. Wonder if anybody's contemplated what the 2nd Amendment has to offer in terms of remedies.

GOPCrusher

It's getting to the point, where it will take one act, like maybe Scott Walker dragged out of his office to a waiting noose in the tree out front, for all Hell to break loose in this country.

gvvt

I think they have to wait a year or something?

Terry

I hope at the one year anniversary that there is a line of people waiting at the appropriate office as it opens, all with recall paperwork and signatures to file.

Biel_ze_Bubba

Question is, can they get ready now, so the vote is held in January? Or do they have to wait 'till January before they can get the ball rolling.

Might have to ask the Wisconsin supreme court … oh wait, never mind.

powersuit

It just gets better: Walker and the fitzgoons plan to gum up the recall effort to force the Walker recall vote to happen on the same day as the state GOP primaries. Gee, how will that turn out?

Gotta hand it to the guy for letting his blood-sucking, soul-crushing evil flag fly free, but his basic stupidity and greed are going to catch up with him soon.

freakishlywrong

Are you shitting me? Can I get a mwwwaahhhaaaha and a side of Sndley Whiplash?

horsedreamer_1

The thing is, we cannot let it defeat us. So, what? The GOP will come out in greater number on their official primary day, yes, but voting is not a zero-sum game. Just because the GOP total will be higher, as raw number, doesn't mean the Democratic total will have to be lower.

We can still out-vote them.

powersuit

I agree, but the difference between Ds and Rs on these things is often that Ds talk a great game about GOTV, but Rs actually do it. That's the trick here. Ds gotta get out and actually vote!

http://whateveritisimagainstit.blogspot.com trampndirtdown

Only property owners should be able to vote.

MissusBarry

Only white male property owners with a net worth over $x,000,000 should be able to vote.

Fixed that for ya.

Rosie_Scenario

Former "property" need not apply. That includes black folks and the ladies. Also.

Pretty much all of the rightwing nutjobs have the same thing going on. Why? Because they are of a hive mind from hell. Faith-based life does not require actual vision.

Left_Leftie

I believe the correct term is wall-eyed.

Rotundo_

Scooters cranium is not symmetrical, be it the strains of passing through the birth canal or some other trauma Scooter's eyes are not on the same plane , nor are his ears or much of anything else. Nasty little shit, sort of like the Doug Niedermaier of republican politics. His nose is right up the Koch's asses, but he will never be one of the chosen. I'm thinking he will be fondly forgotten the minute his sorry ass is thrown out of office. By the repubs, that is.

Naked_Bunny

I assume that's "about 30 minutes away" by car.

Rosie_Scenario

"Mass transit. The transportation of the poor and very poor." (or words to that effect.) Homer Simpson

horsedreamer_1

Fort Atkinson is clear across Jefferson County from Watertown. &, no, there is no mass transit in JeffCo.

jus_wonderin

Clearly he is missing a second leg in his plan were public transportation is rerouted out of the areas where the DMV will be expanded hours.

Biel_ze_Bubba

We need a Dem judge somewhere to order Wisconsin to provide free taxi service to the nearest DMV. It would be amusing to hear the resulting howling.

http://wonkette.com/ weejee

Surveyor marks, mumble, grumble, where the fuck did I put those surveyor marks…

prommie

Napolean's motto: L'audace, l'audace, toujours l'audace. The audacity, its breathtaking. Its overt class warfare, and nothing is off the table, its open and notorious, and this nation of lumpenproles is so class-unconscious, so brainwashed and willfully ignorant, that they refuse to see it.

GeneralLerong

lumpenproles – good one. I'd forgotten about that term. Fat blobs of dough one step up from serfs [they can "vote"], amirite?

Nobody can swear like the Germans.

prommie

Has a technical meaning prominent in the theories of Trotsky that is really perfectly spot-on in describing the vast majority of the US public.

DaRooster

Has anyone started punching this maggot in the cock sack yet?

widestanceroman

No punching–too fast. A slow vice that takes weeks to finally crush them.

DaRooster

I was thinking for weeks…

http://intensedebate.com/people/mrblifil mrblifil

You mean other than every kid who's ever met him from the age of 5 on?

widestanceroman

Hah! At work, I once witnessed a kid (spawn of family-owned business so was untouchable) cold-cock the groin of a co-worker (who was a jerk) the very minute co-worker introduced himself to the tyke.

A scrapbook moment.

x111e7thst

Wisconsin is now the Philippines under F Marcos. Perhaps with more of the whores in public office.

http://www.frso.org/index.htm 4TheTurnstiles

And better beer, let's be honest.

BaldarTFlagass

San Miguel FTW!!
The problem with that brand of Filipino beer, I found, was lack of quality control for that which was intended for domestic consumption rather than export. One night you could go out and drink a case and not even feel bad the next morning; the next night you could drink three and fall of the barstool.

horsedreamer_1

Love me some San Miguel. Got hooked on it in Spain, of all places.

(Nostalgia, maybe, on the Spaniards's part?)

GOPCrusher

And always remember to drink it with your teeth clenched, to keep the bugs from going down your throat.

MinAgain

Man, Scott Walker wouldn't know subtle, if it walked up and bit him on the ass.

DaRooster

That would be great… hopefully an infection of epic proportions would set in.

GOPCrusher

And I love how he hides behind the "I'm doing what the people of Wisconsin elected me to do." bullshit.
Yeah Scott, I'm sure if you would have campaigned on giving massive tax cuts to corporations, destroying the teacher's union, and then making sure that Democrats are no longer allowed to vote, I'm sure you would have won by a landslide.

Goonemeritus

I’m sure the decision was based on economics, the economics of doing what ever your biggest donor wants. This guy richly deserves to be recalled and will serve as an example to independents everywhere that think Republicans can be responsible.

philpjfry

You are assuming people will learn something from this. I think you are overly optimistic

"…the changes were based on economics, not politics." As if the two are unrelated.

Callyson

From the AP:
Transportation Department executive assistant Reggie Newson denied that politics was behind the office closure plan, saying the decisions were being made based on what made the most economic sense.
"This has nothing to do with politics," he said. "We're trying to make sure that we can provide service in each county statewide efficiently."
Yeah, don't you know that providing services to poor people is terribly inefficient? They're so needy, what with their lack of funds and need for access at different times of day. If there were only bankers they could pay any fee and show up between 10:00 and 11:30 on alternate Tuesdays…

http://www.wonkette.com Pres.Beeblebrox

Hm, unless something is screwed up with my browser, there is no longer a "thumbs down" option. I guess Downfist McAsstroll is going to have to find another line of work.

And, by the way, Walker is a {lackey/tool/running dog/insert favorite Bolshevik perjorative} of the ruling class. He and Ken Blackwell can go fuck themselves and join the Voter Suppression Club for Men.

http://johnnyzhivago.blogspot.com johnnyzhivago

Welcome to multicultural, Sharia-influenced Wonkette where everyone is doing their very best to be funny and every post should be equally celebrated as an "excellent job".

http://wonkette.com/ weejee

While telling Spanky to shove it all the way up?

http://archikvetch.blogspot.com/ archikvetch

This Walker guy really knows his chutzpah.

http://johnnyzhivago.blogspot.com johnnyzhivago

Walker wouldn't know a chutzpah if he hit one in the middle of the night with his SUV and then peeled it off his front grille.

Man, the Koch Brothers are really making sure they're getting their money's worth out of this wall-eyed little pussyfart, ain't they?

user-of-owls

Just another day of filthyweaseling in Cheeseland.

http://wonkette.com/ outragedcitizen

I'm sorry but basing the decision to close the DMV offices on economics is the same thing as basing it on politics. The districts with better "economics" almost surely lean toward the GOP while the districts with lower "economics" lean more Democratic.

Just how stupid do these guys think the public is? Oh, never mind, answered my own question.

The situation in Wisconsin is getting to the point where the Federal Government should step in. Except it doesn't exist anymore.

axmxz

Of course the changes were based on economics, of the trickle-down kind, where the rich piss on the poor.

Fox n Fiends

Lets redistrict Conservatives to Somalia.

http://www.wonkette.com/ slowhansolo

The best way to lose a war is to refuse to believe that you're in one.

glamourdammerung

Once again, conservatives show their disdain of this country.

valgal2342

It will be so much fun watching him get recalled and lose.

Jughead2130

The department plans to expand by four hours a week the hours of a center about 30 minutes away in Watertown.

I assume that's a 30 minute walk or 30 minute bus ride because if people could drive there they wouldn't need a fucking photo ID!

You better be ready to run your ass off after during the lunch hour of one of you jobs.
Fuckity fuck fuck fuck.

Jughead2130

How the fuck can this be legal?

deaddddd

The Republican's aren't even trying to not seem comically evil anymore.

Jerri

Everything that can be said about this has probably already been said by now by the rest of you (and said in much more hilarious ways than I can muster), so I'll just repeat my simple refrain when it comes to this fellow: Fuck this fucking chud.

rocktonsam

if the college kids and blacks would have voted in 2010, we wouldn't have to deal with this jack ass.

come to the Dells, also

MissusBarry

I know, but sometimes this “turning the other cheek” bullshit is just too much.